The ear-rattling psychedelia of Brighton’s Oral Habit and the week’s best new tracks

<p>Overpowering, explosive and intense, the trio’s contemporary form of psychedelia is rebooted for the troubled, disturbing climate of 2025</p><p><strong>From</strong> Brighton<br><strong>Recommended if you like</strong> Osees, Ty Segall, the noisier bits of King Gizzard<br><strong>Up next</strong> Currently working on a debut album for release next year.</p><p>A city with its own psych festival, and indeed a gig promotion company called Acid Box, Brighton has no shortage of lysergic left-field rock bands. But while most of their local contemporaries tend to the more recumbent end of the psychedelic spectrum, Oral Habit deal in what they call “the ear-rattling psychic dream of choked-up acid punks”, a sound that feels overpowering, explosive and intense: you could say it’s more closely aligned to the disoriented racket of mid-60s freakbeat than the pie-eyed beatitudes of the Summer of Love; equally you could suggest it’s a very contemporary form of psychedelia, rebooted for the troubled, disturbing climate of 2025.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/14/oral-habit-psychedelia-best-new-tracks">Continue reading...</a>